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			1633 Small pox epidemic further decimates coastal Indian groups.
1635 Roger Williams founds Providence, RI
			1637 Anne Hutchinson banished, settles Portsmouth, RI
1656 First Quaker missionaries arrive in New England
			1675 King Philip's War
1766 Hundreds, including slaves and free blacks, begin holding religious meetings in Sarah Osborne's home in Newport, Rhode Island.
			1822 Rhode Island Historical Society founded
1835 Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves.
			1842 Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island
1842 Eleanor Field gives the Rhode Island Historical Society a basket purportedly made during King Philip's War.
			1859 Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing
1928 A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine